Außerdem gibt es einen Preis für die Beste Western-Biografie (
Best Western Nonfiction – Biography):
1994
(1995) David Dixon:
Hero of Beecher Island: The Life and Military Career of George A. Forsyth
1995
(1996) Alan Rosenus:
General M.G. Vallejoa and the Advent of the Americans: A Biography
1996
(1997) Leon C. Metz:
John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas
(1997)1998 Lynn Bridgers:
Death’s Deceiver
(1998)1999 Ronald L. Davis:
Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne
(1999)2000 Félix D. Almaraz Jr.:
Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958
(2000)2001 Donald Worster:
A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell
[in der Endausscheidung: Ted Yeatman: Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend]
(2001)2002 Mark Thompson:
American Character: The Curious Life of Charles Fletcher Loomis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest
[in der Endausscheidung: James M. Calahan: Edward Abbey: A Life
& Patrick Cox: Ralph W. Yarborough, The People's Senator]
(2002)2003 James L. Haley:
Sam Houston
(2003)2004 Ernest Haycox Jr.:
On A Silver Desert: The Life of Ernest Haycox
(2004)2005 Thom Hatch:
Black Kettle: The Cheyenne Chief Who Sought Peace but Found War
(2005)2006 Candy Moulton:
Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People
(2006)2007 Kingsley M. Bray:
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life
[in der Endausscheidung: Albert L. Hurtado: John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
& Art T. Burton: Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves]
(2007)2008 Robert W. Larson:
Gall: Lakota War Chief
(2008)2009 Meredith Mason Brown:
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America
[in der Endausscheidung: Donald Worster: A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
& Margot Kahn: Horses That Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith]
(2009)2010 David C. Humphrey:
Peg Leg: The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807–1872
[in der Endausscheidung: Clyde A. Milner II & Carol A. O’Connor: As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart
& Polly Aird: Mormon Convert / Mormon Defector: A Scottish Immigrant in the American West]
(2010)2011 James Haley:
Wolf: The Lives of Jack London
[in der Endausscheidung: David Cruise & Allison Griffiths: Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs: The Life of Velma Johnson
& John Boessenecker: Bandido: The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez]
(2011)2012 Paul Magid:
George Crook
[in der Endausscheidung: Louis Kraft: Ned Wynkoop and the Lonely Road from Sand Creek
& Richard D. White: Will Rogers: A Political Life]
(2012)2013 Robert M. Utley:
Geronimo
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul L. Hedren: Ho! For the Black Hills: Captain Jack Crawford Reports the Black Hills Gold Rush and Great Sioux War
& Catherine Holder Spude: “That Fiend in Hell”: Soapy Smith in Legend]
(2013)2014 Earle Labor:
Jack London: An American Life
[in der Endausscheidung: Dean Smith & Mike Cox: Cowboy Stuntman: From Olympic Gold to the Silver Screen
& Kathleen P. Chamberlain: In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War]
(2014)2015 Philip Burnham:
Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
[in der Endausscheidung: Larry D. Ball: Tom Horn in Life and Legend
& Richard W. Etulain: The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane]
(2015)2016 T.J. Stiles:
Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
[in der Endausscheidung: Paul Magid: The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars
& Carlos R. Herrera: Juan Bautista De Anza: The King’s Governor in New Mexico]
(2016)2017 Joe Jackson:
Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
[in der Endausscheidung: John Boessenecker: Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
& Richard Shelton: Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir]
(2017)2018 Jane Little Botkin:
Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family
[in der Endausscheidung: Doug Hocking: Tom Jeffords, Friend of Cochise
& Jerry Thompson: Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891]
(2018)2019 Mark J. Nelson:
White Hat: The Military Career of Captain William Philo Clark
[in der Endausscheidung: Julia Bricklin: Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West
& Michael F. Blake: The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt]
(2019)2020 Diana Allen Kouris:
Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park
[in der Endausscheidung: Julie McDonald Zander: Washington Territory’s Grand Lady: The Story of Matilda (Glover) Koontz Jackson
& Marc C. Johnson: Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana]
(2020)2021 Peter Cozzens:
Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
[in der Endausscheidung: Laura J. Arata: Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930 (aber ausgezeichnet als Best First Nonfiction Book)
& Paul Magid: An Honest Enemy: George Crook and the Struggle for Indian Rights]
(2021)2022 Wynne Brown:
The Forgotten Botanist: Sara Plummer Lemmon’s Life of Science and Art
[in der Endausscheidung: Darla Worden:
Cockeyed Happy: Ernest Hemingway’s Wyoming Summers with Pauline
& Jerry Enzler:
Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West]
Und seit 2015 gibt es auch einen Preis für den Besten Western-Sachbuch-Erstling (
Best First Nonfiction Book):
(2014)2015 Jefferson Glass:
Reshaw: The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard
(2015)2016 William Heath:
William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest (auch ausgezeichnet als Best Western Nonfiction – Historical)
(2016)2017 Fernanda Santos:
The Fire Line: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting
(2017)2018 Jane Little Botkin:
Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family (auch ausgezeichnet als Best Western Nonfiction – Biography)
(2018)2019 Francisco Cantú:
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border (auch ausgezeichnet als Best Western Contemporary Nonfiction)
(2019)2020 David Crow:
The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story
(2020)2021 Laura J. Arata:
Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870–1930
(2021)2022 Anne MacKinnon:
Public Waters: Lessons from Wyoming for the American West